WASHINGTON - Rep. Jim Jordan suggested Wednesday that House Speaker Paul Ryan would be in hot water with conservatives if GOP leaders try to pass a stand-alone bill granting legal status to the so-called DREAMers.

Jordan, R-Urbana, applauded Trump’s decision, saying the DACA program was unconstitutional and had created an incentive for “people to try to get into the country illegally.”

Ryan and other GOP leaders have said they want to address the status of those undocumented immigrants, but they have not endorsed a specific proposal.

Jordan said any legislative fix for the DREAMers would have to include funding for Trump’s border wall to pass muster with the House Freedom Caucus, a band of about 40 ultra-conservative lawmakers. Jordan helped found the Freedom Caucus, and if they vote as a bloc they can wield significant power inside the GOP conference.

“The border-security wall has to happen,” Jordan said, noting that was a central GOP promise in the 2016 election. “We’d like to see the border security wall dollars this month,” Jordan said, either as part of a stop-gap spending bill or through the regular appropriations process.

But funding for the border wall is a non-starter for most Democrats, and even some Republicans are lukewarm about Trump’s proposal.

At a news conference on Wednesday, Ryan said Congress must address border security and protect the DREAMers, but he didn’t say how the GOP would accomplish either.

There is "a serious humane issue here that needs to be dealt with" with the current DACA immigrants, Ryan said. "They don't know any other country as a home.”

Jordan said the Freedom Caucus only supported Ryan’s bid for speaker after the Wisconsin Republican promised not to bring up any immigration legislation that didn’t enjoy broad support within the House GOP conference.

“He committed to us — 40 members sitting right there — and he said he was not going to do anything on immigration that didn’t have the support of the Republican conference. So to move something that doesn’t deal with the fundamental issue of securing the border … I just do not see that happening,” Jordan said.

“I don’t think he’s going to break that (promise) because that was a fundamental principal we established with Speaker Ryan when we agreed to support him for speaker of the House,” he said.